If the tomatoes look a little rough, it's because these are field tomatoes and just about the last of the year. Greenhouse tomatoes look perfect but are often a bit hard and lacking in an intense tomato flavour. These, on the other hand, are full of flavour, juicy and wonderful on their own or in a salad or just cut into thick discs and placed between slices of fresh baked bread.
Despite what it says on the sign, sweet corn has already disappeared and local strawberries are finding it difficult to ripen. Still, there are bins filled with apple varieties and there are half a dozen or more kinds of squash for sale.
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I will miss fresh produce! We're hunkering down for winter here -- it's snowing, and yesterday it was 80° (F) where I live. I brought my potted tomato and pepper plants indoors to save them from the storm, but my vegetable garden is doomed. Sigh. I do love winter, though.
Still a busy time for the farmers, but the market here will be seeing less vendors by month's end and certainly so over the course of the winter, when it's held indoors.
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